• NY Time City Room blog has a picture of Pat Bertoletti, Sonya Thomas and Bob Shoudt superimposed with faces from the Spook-A-Rama ride
• Epicurious’ list of food-based video games
• Topeka jalapeno contest report
• Nathan’s gallery by MissCharo
• George Hadary wins Dallas La Contena jalapeno eating contest
• Yelp reviews of Nathan’s finals

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• Final Denver hot dog qualifier report
• Column criticizing Juris Shibayama for finishing “toward the back of the pack” that does not bother to find out his actual placing
• Megamunch blog entry and gallery from the UEPa meeting at Gregory’s Steakhouse
• Report on Tour de Donut in which cyclists can reduce their reported finishing times by eating donuts
• The Serious Sports News Network reports that a congressional committee will investigate allegations that PEDs were used in the Nathans’ finals
• Mini-essay contest for slots in the Bowie burrito eating contest, also lists expected ranked entrants

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• Joey Chestnut on the Today Show after defending his Nathan’s title
• Short article about Hall Hunt on jacksonville.com
• Mini burger eating contest in Long Beach Monday. Purse is $600 in restaurant gift certificates.
• FCC affirms $4000 fine of WIP for not following listed rules in Wing Bowl 13.
• Parody about alleged performance enhancing drug use in the Nathan’s finals
• Southington, CT hot dog contest also goes into overtime
• Kobayashi has a blog entry about Hungry & Focused 4 showing Super Paul Barlow’s cover art
• Kobayashi also has a link to Erin Wigger’s gallery of competitive eaters

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Valerie Bromann, who previously photographed the Krystal Square Off finals, attended last week’s Nathan’s finals and posted a blog entry and gallery with over 100 pictures.

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Juliet Lee has updated her WriteNow page with news from her trip to the Nathan’s finals where she received the 2008 IFOCE Rookie of the Year award. She also announced that she finished recording a documentary being produced by the Food Network.

The pictures above are from valjean615’s flickr gallery from the Nathan’s finals, which includes pictures of all competitors entrances (Arturo Rios also removed his shirt like Juris Shibayama) along with the Rookie of the Year ceremony. Patrick Vandam and Juris Shibayama were apparently the other finalists for that award.

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amNY has an article and gallery from this afternoon’s weigh in. The finals have been officially shortened to 10 minutes. The listed weights in the article:

Joey Chestnut, 210 lb.
Takeru Kobayashi, 128 lb.
Juliet Lee 110 lb.

Gersh Kuntzman has a new column disparaging Kobayashi’s chances at reclaiming the belt.

The Big Lead sport blog has a preview of the Nathan’s finals

Sarah DiGregorio, who wrote the Village Voice article about Conti & Janus, will appear on the Ron Kuby show on Air America this evening at 5:45

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Gothamist has a blog entry about the weigh in

NY1 has an article and video

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• Video of bacon eating contest from Super Paul Barlow
• Video of a recent Pat Bertoletti practice session
• amNY article about Badlands Booker
• Video promoting upcoming “Hungry & Focused” apparel from Badlands Booker
• Synopsis of upcoming “Hurl” episodes on G4
• Crazy Legs and Eater X make the cover of the current Village Voice (from Liz K) – a gallery from their article
• MSNBC on extreme July 4 meals
• 2 for the price of 1 Nathan’s online coupon
• Slideshow of Henderson, MN sauerkraut competition
• Fox News article about Nathan’s
• Krystalist announces Krystal Square Off V
• Megamunch emails the following request for an upcoming Baltimore Examiner story:
  

  Are there any long-term health effects of competitive eating? What about just short-term effects? Should people take certain precautions if they are competitively eating? Are there warning signs someone should look out for if they compete frequently? Contact: Sara Michael, smichael@baltimoreexaminer.com

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• Article about James Howell and his performance in the New Orleans qualifier
• Jill Stoler has posted the pictures she took at the Three Brothers Pizza contest
• Video from Hartford qualifier
• Article about local Bartolini’s Meatballs qualifiers
• NY Post on Nathan’s shortening
• Kansas City hot dog contest Friday night at Tengo sed, $200 prize
• No MLE video game release this week
• Kobayashi finds Japanese hot dogs wanting
• Articles promoting Tomoko Mikaye’s book of PG rated photographs: Sanspo.com, NikkanSports

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• Podcast of Crazy Legs Conti promoting the Hot Dog Safari (Crazy Legs Conti’s appearance begins around the 32 minute mark)
• Spectator report from the Carnegie Deli pickle contest
• Gallery from the Philadelphia Nathan’s qualifier
• Joey Chestnut’s hometown, Vallejo, is bankrupt
• Jill Stoler apologizes to Beautiful Brian Nation
• MLE game not coming out this week according to joystiq
• Tomoko Miyake promotes Tobu Department Store’s new buffet (blog entry)

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SuperSizedMeals.com has a gallery from the May 17 Bigger Mac Daddy Burger eating contest. The captions state that Ian Hickman was the winner.

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• Gallery of Saturday’s contests in Brunswick, GA from Bruce Pobanz
• Sonya Thomas thinks the new 10 minute duration will make it difficult for her to become the first woman to break 40 HDB
• Don Lerman believes “food pervision” companies have stolen his “interlectial propery”
• Article about local competitors at Chicago Nathan’s qualifier
• Preview of the Pittsburgh Nathan’s qualifier. Brian Subich is the only listed expected entrant
• Milia Mahfoud, the only female entrant, won a pancake eating contest at the Kingsburg Swedish Heritage Festival.
• Humble Bob has some pictures of the gyro contest on his home page
• Skinnyboy had a drunk fan while he attempted a hot dog challenge
• Article about Crazy Legs Conti in the Monterey Herald
• Calendar lists New Orleans Nathan’s qualifier on June 4 (a Wednesday) at Metairie
• Jamie of Hungry Sisters will be an assistant for Hog Happenin in Lincolnton, NC, which will have some eating contests
• $175 burger containing gold flakes
• Video of pizza eating contest from G.L.O.W. wrestling between Matilda the Hun and Mount Fiji

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Galleries of the recent Nathan’s qualifiers held in Las Vegas and Apple Valley, Minnesota are now available. Captions for the Las Vegas gallery report that Rich LeFevre ate 32 hot dogs and not the 31 in the official report.

The Las Vegas Sun has an article containing a picture of Rich LeFevre and Sarah Jane from one of the galleries. Sarah Jane was the only female competitor and previously auditioned for “American Idol”. Like Ron Koch, she works as a casino photographer. She finished with 8.5 hot dogs, which puts her in the company of 8 females who are known to have broken the 8 HDB mark:

39 Sonya Thomas, 2007, 12 minutes
28 Juliet Lee, 2007, 12 minutes
25 Carlene LeFevre, 2005, 12 minutes
22.25 Takako Akasaka, 2000, 12 minutes
18 Miyuki Iwata, 2004, 12 minutes
12 Melody Andorfer, 1972, 5 minutes
9.5 Birgit Felden, 1984, 10 minutes
8.5 Sarah Jane, 2008, 10 minutes

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• Serious Eats on MLE video game
• Chestnut & Bertoletti expected to meet at Asparagus Festival April 26
• InsideNoVa on last week’s frozen custard eating contest
• Radio report on Sonya Thomas’ hot dog contest at the University of Mary Washington wins award
  
• 9 foot pizza made for festival
• 58 year old Fantasy science-fiction artist wins Flancer’s pizza eating contest
• Gallery of Collegiate Nationals qualifier

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BeautifulBrian.com has a report on his experience at the Broadway at the Beach contest

Dave US Male has emailed some pictures from his trip which can be seen after the jump. Beautiful Brian and Badlands Booker are performing the Bonebreaker Barlow song.

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Metromix has a gallery of the final contest in the “Munch Madness” team relay bar bite eating tournament, which was nicknamed the “Elite Ate”

The winner is not mentioned in the gallery captions. Team Manchetti was one of the eight finalists.

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• Spike TV graphic replaced with Acme Oyster House logo on IFOCE.com home page (cached version) MLE page on SpikeTV.com remains up (from comment)
• Don Lerman considers entering Carnegie Deli pickle contest, then decides against it
• Galleries and video of Munch Madness (Connecticut) qualifiers
• First Battle of the Bone qualifier results
• Texas eating contest reportedly faked for travel show
• Mio “Sakura” Takahashi eats 5.3 kg of curry and then is filmed with an infared camera
• Gal Sone dines with Jaycee Chan, son of Jackie
• Cartoon of Loki’s eating contest from Norse Mythology

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• Kobayashi praises Juris Shibayama’s bench pressing
• Cartoons added to the Heart Attack Grill’s online wall of fame (see above) (from Dr. Jon)
• Ryan Urban, Don Lerman’s nephew, attends NY Pizza show and says his uncle can eat three pizzas in less than 5 minutes.
• Eating contest from “Meatballs” on youtube
• Iron Chef video cooking game coming for Wii

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Erik Denmark has posted a blog entry and gallery from the February 23 jalapeno eating contest in Laredo, Texas.

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The Never a Dull Moment blog has a report and slideshow from a Chicken McNugget eating contest. The top two finishers were women who both exceeded 40 nuggets in 12 minutes and beat two males who have aspirations of becoming competitive eaters.

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Coney Island slideshow (from Liz K)
Help a Hungry Sister win a scholarship by voting for her picture of Pat Bertoletti
Pat Bertoletti eats watermelon on the Mancow radio show
Delaware charity gnocchi contest report

Some upcoming independent contests
February 16, Corned Beef Musubi eating contest, San Diego
February 23, Pickled egg eating contest, Boise, ID
March 15, pancake eating contest, Harley Davidson of Anaheim-Fullerton
March 25/26, Denver/Boulder oyster eating contest

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The No Me Without You blog announces that a series of portraits of competitive eaters has started. A picture of Tim “Eater X” Janus eating ramen noodles in Chinatown accompanies the announcement. A picture of Crazy Legs Conti is forthcoming.

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Iwanichi Online reports that Takashi Aoki won the 50th annual installment of the Hanamaki wanko soba noodle eating contest by eating 223 cups of noodles in 5 minutes. According to Kahoku, Aoki works as a hospital psychiatrist.

The contest’s 50 year duration probably makes it the world’s longest running annual eating competition. (The official Nathan’s history / apocrypha states that the 1971 Nathan’s hot dog contest was canceled as a “protest to civil unrest and the reign of free love”.)

JapanProbe and TVI both have videos of the contest. The blog for Foreign Policy magazine also mentions the contest.

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Megamunch has written a blog entry about Wing Bowl 16 and his attempts at pre-contest tailgating. He was forced to migrate between 4 different parking lots before entering the Wachovia Center to be a part of “Big” Brian Subich’s entourage. Megamunch has a captioned gallery of his trip.

“Humble” Bob Shoudt has also posted his report about his participation in Wing Bowl 16. Like other eaters, he has questions about the counting and ranking of his first round results:

At the end of the 14 minutes, I had eaten 108 wings. I was nervous that would not be enough as these wings were much faster then the cold rocks I had last year.

We waited for a while and then a guy came around and told us if we were in the 2nd round or not. I was told no, so I picked up my stuff. My judge came by and asked where I was sitting for the 2nd round. I said I wasn’t, I didn’t make it. He said “Those guys must have eaten a _ _ _ _ load of wings (refering to the other eaters). I asked him how he scored me. He said 17 and 18s on each plate (5 full plates). I was satisfied that I did not make it as that put me at 17+17+17+17+18 – worst case = 86 plus 6 on the last plate = 92 total. I assumed 92 would not be enough. When they announced that 70 was the 10th place total, I thought they they had just made a mistake. Nope. Next year…

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Juris Shibayama answers 10 questions on IFOCE.com
U of Penn student newspaper report about the Wing Bowl
Cornell Sun report from Wing Bowl 16
philadelphia.about.com Wing Bowl 16 gallery, has pictures of Juris Shibayama, Erik Denmark, Wing Kong, Humble Bob, Wing Tut, US Male, Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti and others
Gallery of Hamtrack, MI paczki eating contest
Takuya Yamamoto thinks the root beer he drank in the USA is Coke with a “drug-ish kind of taste”
Bodybuilder Isabelle Turell eats a 1 pound burger and then a half pound ostrich burger

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Krystal Square Off finalists offer advice on how to eat as much as possible in as short a period of time as possible in USAToday.com
The Hollywood Reporter on Super Bowl halftime viewing options
Giant sushi roll eating contest for teams of Japanese female college students
Blog entry & gallery by recent Quick Chek sub winner
Picture of Sonya Thomas & fan at Washington Capitals game
NY Daily News on Brooklyn vegan wing eating contest
Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane attempts 7 pound breakfast burrito challenge (Female burrito finishers receive free food for life)
Don “Moses” Lerman is upset about not being named a jalapeno judge
Krystal Super Bowl photo contest

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